Word: least
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...comfortable motor road connecting the French resorts with San Remo. Next day French artisans were busy repairing the stretch of road with such vigor that for long it will be impassible. Italians wrathfully and truthfully declared that there had been no storm. High play at San Remo fell, at least temporarily...
...Baker, dark, clean-shaven, fond of classics and gardening, eloquent in speech, did lawful battle in a Cincinnati courtroom with Charles Evans Hughes, fair, bushy of beard, fond of animals, deliberate in speech. Mr. Hughes was attorney for Mrs. Josephine Scripps, of Miramar, Calif., who was suing for at least $6,000,000 of the estate of the late E. W. Scripps, founder of the Scripps-Howard chain of newspapers. Mr. Baker was representing the defendant, Robert Paine Scripps, trustee of the estate. In summing up his argument, Mr. Baker quoted at length from King Lear. Mr. Hughes rebutted that...
Last week another woman, name of Peggy Cleary, applied for a seat on the New York Stock Exchange. Apparently she has the two major qualifications for admission to the most expensive and least exclusive club in the world: $375,000, and that firmness of jaw possessed by exquisite, merciless croupiers who rake chips on Monte Carlo's greens. Miss Peggy Cleary's training has been sound. She was and is a star customer's woman.* Last week 1,100 brokers at 20 posts applauded Miss Cleary's audacity. Next week 1,099 members may have a chance to "haze...
Those companies in return have the right to know & use Victor's laboratory discoveries. Closer comity between R. C. A. and Victor will at least reduce the overhead costs of selling. One shop can easily sell both types of machines...
...Hotel Eden a rich young man (Charles Ray) makes love to Toni (Corinne Griffith). A marriage is arranged. Enraged by last-minute accusations of gold-digging, Toni tears off her wedding gown, runs through corridors in less & less until finally she encounters the Prime Minister in the least possible. All is explained; she dresses; she marries...